A recently appointed security official in the Trump administration once led a think tank that published false reports about ...

The tightening of US migration policy after Donald Trump, means the number of migrants seeking to cross the US/Mexico border ...

In Ciudad Juárez, an old criminal guard is being replaced by a new one amid a changing criminal economy on the US-Mexico ...

Criminal networks battling over drug routes and markets have made the northeastern state of Ceará into one of Brazil's ...

Rumors abound about Tren de Aragua. It began as a prison gang in Venezuela, led by Niño Guerrero. This is his story.

InSight Crime's co-director Steven Dudley and managing editor Deborah Bonello discuss President Trump's latest directive, and ...

Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated, and most violent organized criminal groups. These organizations have drawn from Mexico’s long history of smuggling and its ...

Arms trafficking presents complex challenges to authorities around Latin America and the Caribbean, but combating these ...

InSight Crime investigator Parker Asmann provided expert analysis to several media outlets in Honduras following the release ...

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater USA, is pitching his companies as solutions to insecurity and organized crime across Latin America.

This is the story of alias “Fito,” one of Ecuador’s top crime bosses and the leader of the powerful criminal group, the Choneros.

El Salvador is the spiritual homeland of Central America’s most notorious street gangs – the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and Barrio 18. For years, these gangs terrorized poor urban neighborhoods across ...